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In her Vice News report "The Women Fighting to Protect Yemen", she interviewed female fighters, child brides, domestic abuse victims, widows of the conflict and female protestors, and chewed khat with government officials from the Yemeni Interior Ministry; their takes on the country's problems related to gender discrimination, gender violence ...
Since the founding of the State of Israel, relatively few women have served in the Israeli government, and fewer still have served in the leading ministerial offices.. While Israel is one of a small number of countries where a woman—Golda Meir—has served as Prime Minister, it is behind most Western countries in the representation of women in both the parliament and gover
In 2014, Yael Eckstein was named "One of Israel's 100 Most Influential Women" by Makor Rishon. [16] In 2015, she was featured on the cover of Nashim (Women) magazine.In 2019, she was recognized by the Algemeiner Journal as one of the "Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life". [17]
Israel launched the war following the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, 2023, when militants killed 1,200 people and took more than 250 hostages back to Gaza, according to Israeli tallies.
"It is well known, well researched and well documented that women and girls suffer more during captivity," said Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, an Israeli legal expert and a former vice-chair of the U.N ...
About 150 activists, including those from Jewish women’s groups, also marched in front of U.N. headquarters Monday, with speakers accusing the U.N. of failing to act over the abuse of Israeli ...
In an interview on the US television news show Nightline, recorded on 28 March 2006, Livni stated, "Somebody who is fighting against Israeli soldiers is an enemy and we will fight back, but I believe that this is not under the definition of terrorism, if the target is a soldier." [43] Livni meets with President George W. Bush
Israeli forces disguised as civilian women and medics stormed a hospital Tuesday in the occupied West Bank, killing three Palestinian militants in a dramatic raid that underscored how deadly ...